Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 2003/12

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] C-Clarinet Alert
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:11:56 -0500

Dan Leeson says <<As the next rehearsal, she came up to me and insisted that
I not even
unpack my C clarinet (which I had not in any case). She had, she said,
called Stanley Drucker and he told her that if I couldn't transpose the
part, I should be fired. So I smiled and said, I'll do the best I can
and so I transposed the entire part onto an A clarinet just to be
stubborn. In fact, I played every movement on the clarinet NOT called
for. I played all A parts on a B-flat and vice versa. All the C parts
wound up on A. She never asked why my clarinet was a different length than
the one
being used by the 1st player, who was Bill Shadel, at that time the
first with the NJ Symphony. Afterwards we both laughed so hard we wet
ourselves.>>

Dan, you shared this story with us before, but in a greatly expurgated
version. I like this version MUCH better. I didn't wet myself, but came darn close.

Still chuckling....God, you're a stubborn cuss.........

Walter

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